Check Your Web Site In Various Browsers
It’s sometimes hard to believe that there may be folks who use a different browser than ourselves. But it’s the reality.
And if every browser would have the same way of showing the same piece of code it would not be a problem at all. In most cases it’s not the correct coding that poses a problem but the wrong one (like not closing a command).
It first stroke me a couple of years ago when I visited a web site that looked awful in Firefox. As I still have Internet Explorer on my computer, I decided to give it a try. And it looked just fine. On a side note, this is kind of weird as Internet Explorer (or at least its versions previous to 7) does a worse job than Firefox.
Anyhow, it bugged. And I immediately decided to check my website in both. Thankfully, everything was OK. However, whenever I do some desing tweaking I always check the results in both browsers. It hasn’t been just once that the desired effect of the changes was not met by both browsers in the same time.
To make the situation even worse, there’s way more than just these 2. I’m not going to list all of them. The point is that you couldn’t possibly install all browsers on your computer and check your design on all of them at the same time. “It’s madness, I tell you.”
Thanks to Rachel from cre8d design I have found the one tool to help me with the problem (and it could help you too). The name of the website where you can find it says it all: browsershots. It’s an open source service so it’s free.
Go ahead. Test your web site and if anything looks “strange” don’t waste another minute and make the necessary changes. I can’t even count the times I left a web site simply because it looked all weird. Superficial? You bet. But I’m on a tight schedule 24/7 as it is. I don’t have time to figure out web sites.
